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Monitoring

Monitoring is essential for proactively identifying and addressing system issues, ensuring performance, and maintaining overall reliability with minimal manual intervention.

Access Monitoring Tab

  1. Navigate to the "Environments" tab.

    Environments Overview

  2. Choose the desired environment from the list.

  3. A new dropdown navigation menu will appear.

  4. In the left-side menu, select "Monitoring".

    Monitoring

Managing Monitoring tab

<img src="../../../assets/images/managing_monitoring.jpg" width="500" alt="Managing monitoring">

  1. Select the period for which to display the metrics: "3H", "12H", "24H", or "48H".

  2. Click the "Open in Grafana" button to access more metrics.

Available Metrics

Mendix Runtime Requests (per second)

<img src="../../../assets/images/runtime_requests.jpg" width="300" alt="Runtime Requests">

This metric shows the number of requests processed by the Mendix Runtime per second.

CPU Usage

<img src="../../../assets/images/CPU_usage.jpg" width="300" alt="CPU Usage">

This metric displays the percentage of CPU utilization by the Mendix application.

JVM Memory Usage

<img src="../../../assets/images/JVM_memory_usage.jpg" width="300" alt="JVM Memory Usage">

This metric shows the amount of Java Virtual Machine (JVM) memory used by the application.

Mendix Connection Bus

<img src="../../../assets/images/connection_bus.jpg" width="300" alt="Connection Bus">

This metric displays the status and performance of the Mendix Connection Bus.

Microflow Metrics - Mendix Microflow Execution Frequency

This metric displays Mendix Microflow Execution Frequency (per second).

<img src="../../../assets/images/execution_frequency.jpg" width="300" alt="Execution Frequency">

Microflow Metrics - Mendix Microflow Execution Time

This metric displays Mendix Microflow Execution Time.

<img src="../../../assets/images/execution_time.jpg" width="300" alt="Execution Time">

Datadog support

Datadog is a monitoring service that allows you to monitor your application performance and troubleshoot issues.

Set following environment variables in the Mendix application environment:

DD_API_KEY=api-key
DD_HOSTNAME=hostname
DD_SITE=datadoghq.eu

Where:

  • DD_API_KEY is the API key for the Datadog service.
  • DD_HOSTNAME is the hostname of the Mendix application.
  • DD_SITE is the Datadog site to use.